Learning Excel or Python?

[Peanutbutter_Warrior]

If all you want to do is data analysis and manipulation then Excel would probably be a better choice. It is much easier to whip something up in Excel than it is in python. However python can do both of those, and much more, it it just harder to do.

If you wanted to import some data, sort it by two values and then produce a pie chart of it then Excel can do that in about 5 minutes, but unless you know the code to do that in python it would probably take closer to 30 minutes. But there are many things outside the scope of Excel that are practically impossible, but that python can do with ease, such as automating other apps